Maintaining and Expanding vRealize Operations Manager

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vRealize Operations Manager provides features to help you perform maintenance, troubleshoot potential issues, and optimize your work with vRealize Operations Manager.

The product includes cluster and node management options that let you work with the processing systems at the heart of vRealize Operations Manager. When you need to troubleshoot the system, various logs collect details related to how well vRealize Operations Manager is working and are available for bundling if Technical Support needs to review them. You also have the ability to maintain passwords that control operator access to the product, and authentication certificates that provide system-to-system security.

Some administration activities involve how vRealize Operations Manager monitors objects in the environment. For example, maintenance mode settings prevent misleading data from appearing when objects are offline or undergoing maintenance. Licensing activates vRealize Operations Manager monitoring and solutions, and license groups organize objects for data collection under a particular license key. There also are on-demand options to refresh installed adapter lists and gather information about adapter abilities, and to recalculate dynamic thresholds so that vRealize Operations Manager captures the most recent data for a particular metric.

When you are performing maintenance operations, it is good practice to stop the Endpoint Operations Management agent and to restart it after the maintenance is complete to avoid unnecessary system overhead.

You perform cluster and node maintenance procedures to help your vRealize Operations Manager perform more efficiently cluster and node maintenance involves activities such as changing the online or offline state of the cluster or individual nodes, enabling or disabling high availability (HA), reviewing statistics related to the installed adapters, and rebalancing the workload for better performance.

Maintenance schedules identify objects that are in maintenance mode at specific times, which prevents vRealize Operations Manager from showing misleading data based on those objects being offline or in other unusual states because of maintenance.

To activate vRealize Operations Manager monitoring , you add licenses at installation or later. You track licenses so that you know what vRealize Operations Manager may monitor and when your licenses expire.

Like other vRealize Operations Manager groups, you create a license group of objects as a way of gathering those objects for data collection. In this case, you are associating the objects with a product license.

A threshold marks the boundary between normal and abnormal behavior for a metric. In addition to fixed thresholds, vRealize Operations Manager supports dynamic thresholds for a metric, calculated based on historical and incoming data.

When vRealize Operations Manager redescribes an adapter, vRealize Operations Manager finds the adapter files, gathers information about the abilities of the adapter, and updates the user interface with information about the adapter.

When you upgrade vRealize Operations Manager, it is important that you upgrade the current versions of content types that allow you to alert on and monitor the objects in your environment. With upgraded alert definitions, symptom definitions, and recommendations, you can alert on the various states of objects in your environment and identify a wider range of problem types. With upgraded views, you can create dashboards and reports to easily identify and report on problems in your environment.

Backup and restore your vRealize Operations Manager system on a regular basis to avoid downtime and data loss in case of a system failure. If your system does fail, you can restore the system to the last full or incremental backup.

This product participates in VMware's Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP). The CEIP provides VMware with information that enables VMware to improve its products and services, to fix problems, and to advise you on how best to deploy and use our products. You can choose to join or leave the CEIP for vRealize Operations Manager at any time.